Turquoise Vintage-Pattern Machine-Woven Rug

Vintage Patterned Machine-Woven Rug, drawn the way an old photograph prints when the paper has yellowed: a mink ground with the pattern washed into it and turquoise surfacing along the lines that survived.

01What Wool does

Wool, cotton and viscose. Machine-woven in Türkiye, sitting 160 × 230 cm (5'3" × 7'7") square and nothing larger. Turquoise is the whole argument for this rug. It is a rare color in Anatolian weaving and a common one in the tiles that came out of the same region, and against mink it does something no warm color does — it cools the floor rather than warming it.

02Knot by knot, by hand

The vintage treatment keeps the drawing from reading as new, so the rug can sit under modern furniture without looking like a reproduction of an old one. Machine weaving is what makes a rug repeatable, even and quick, and it is also the reason this one is a floor covering and not an object with a history.

03What the yarn is

The mix here is wool with cotton and viscose: the wool gives body, the cotton is in the structure, the viscose is the shine along the turquoise. A machine-woven pile of this height sheds very little and vacuums flat. There is no hand knotting anywhere in it, and the house does not present it as if there were. Machine-woven in Türkiye, in a single size. Wool with cotton and viscose in the mix. Turquoise pattern faded into a mink ground. Cools a room rather than warming it, unlike most vintage palettes. Low shedding; vacuums flat. One size only, sitting 160 × 230 cm (5'3" × 7'7") square, which fits in front of a sofa. Professional washing. Turquoise came into Anatolian tile long before it came into Anatolian rugs, and on a floor it still looks slightly like a borrowing.